Cleveland has had it’s Rapid Transit forever! From Shaker Heights to downtown. Has always been well ridden. Now,,, the neighborhoods have changed. It used to be that you paid your fare when you got on. Now you pay at turnstiles in the downtown station. The minority kids just jump the turnstile, and run away. The police came out with a statement that they would no longer be arresting the jumpers because,,,,, they would be arresting a “disproportionate number” of minorities! And that wouldn’t look right! I don’t know how well the transit system was doing, but now it’s another “hand out!”
A handicapped person needs to file suit saying that this policy has a discrimatory effect because he are forced to pay the fare, while the able bodied youth are able to jump the turnstile. A lawsuit could require the system to install accessible means to beat the fare.